The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) will be hosting an in-person training for schools interested in joining a Parental Choice Program. The following topics will be covered: How to complete the Notice of School’s Intent to Participate Required school policies Student Information System (SIS) and WISEdata requirements Surety Bond Financial Requirements This training will be [...]
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Kohl Awards Close Tuesday, Nov 26
November 01, 2019
All Teacher and Student Kohl Scholarship Applications close Tuesday, November 26 at 5:00 pm. Please note that the system will lock after the deadline and all unfinished applications will be automatically declined.
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Reducing the Vapor
October 31, 2019
What schools can do to address vaping: Update your school’s policies to prevent the use of vaping devices. This is unique to every school and you should consult your school’s lawyers. Look for ways to prevent students from vaping in unmonitored areas, like bathrooms and locker rooms. Stop vaping in your school community by implementing [...]
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Free School Lunches At Risk
October 31, 2019
A proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would limit eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), our nation’s foremost anti-hunger program. While it was initially believed that up to 500,000 children would lose direct certification for free school meals as a result of this proposed rule, the Department of Agriculture recently [...]
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Accurate Facts on Private Schools
October 31, 2019
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is conducting its 2019-20 Private School Survey and WCRIS is urging you to participate, with encouragement from the Office of Non-Public Education located in the US Department of Education. Since 2002, the survey has been done biennially after an act of Congress authorized the collection of public and [...]
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Families Have Biggest Impact on Children’s Learning
October 31, 2019
Being a parent is a tiring and sometimes seemingly unrewarding endeavor but society (and school leaders) may benefit from encouraging parents to focus on the importance of their role as the primary and best educators of their children. That’s a take-away from a presentation by Nobel Prize laureate James Heckman, a University of Chicago Professor [...]
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Vaping in the Classroom and at Home
October 24, 2019
You can read last week’s article on the history of vaping here. Vaping devices are small, quiet and look like something a student would carry on them during a normal school day. No matter the size, all of the vaping devices can cause harm or even death. Some examples of look-a-like vaping devices: USB thumb [...]
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Results of Youth Risk Behavior Survey
October 24, 2019
You can learn about the activities and risk level of your area’s young people by reviewing the results of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The survey is conducted annually by the Department of Public Instruction. Results are available by county for the first time ever. Private schools were invited to participate in the survey, but [...]
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Behind the Smoke Screen
October 17, 2019
The rise of electronic tobacco products is growing in schools. What can principals, teachers and parents do to stop adolescent smoking? The seemingly overnight popularity of e-cigs has left state and federal lawmakers unprepared and scrambling to enact policies to prevent kids from getting their hands on these products. Because of its design, the e-cigarette [...]
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Kohl Award Nominations Close October 8
October 03, 2019
The window to nominate a teacher or principal for the 2020 Kohl Education Awards close Tuesday. Private school teachers and principals can only win if they are nominated! Anyone can nominate a teacher or principal. Only nominees are eligible to apply for the actual awards, which provide a $6,000 stipend for each of 14 private [...]
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